JOHN NIELSEN
This is really cool. I never thought we’d get an answer to this one. My friend Rich Fisher at the Vickers Machine Gun Collection & Research Societyposted a videoon the old chestnut that “the whole nine yards” refers to the length of machine gun belts. As he shows for the Vickers a...
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bounding down the stairs toward the monkeys, and the monkeys jumped off of Sandy’s legs and chased after the dog, who did a quick U-turn, and the whole riled up animal entourage disappeared into the forest. They
It’s a real, permanent faculty job — teaching, students, grant proposals, the whole nine yards. Homewood Professors are not tenured, but in some sense it’s better — the position floats freely above any specific department lines, so administrative/committee obligations are minimized. (They to...
I had a sweet system setup for my jails, custom scripts, the whole nine yards. Everything dialed-in just so. But at some point real-life intruded and I realized I didn't like spending more time than I had to maintaining things just to stay on top of updates. I had more interesting...
I asked a waiter about the origin and he thought it was because years ago, they had unmatched sections of the ceiling and decided that the headgear would “hide” the discrepancy. There was nothing on the website which provided any insight and while it was an attractive and interesting tou...
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the title of one of them, The Origin of Tree Worship, and it struck me that the fellow must be some poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector of obscure volumes. I endeavoured to apologize for the accident, but it was evident that these books which I...
“county” itself is feudal in origin, being the fiefdom of that noble taxonomy of lord called a “Count” (or, in the original French, “comte”), as in the Count of Savoy. With, obviously, no regard for how these divisions serve our needs as a nation – in all dimensions: ...